Meet The Remarkable Women on our Advisory Board:
Before becoming a producer, I was a financial reporter and syndicated columnist who interviewed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs. The most successful people I profiled had one trait in common: when faced with a challenge, they set their egos aside and asked for help.
This is why I’ve asked the accomplished and remarkable women below to provide insights and perspective by joining our informal advisory board. Some are new friends, others have collaborated and financed various corporate and creative projects I’ve produced in the past.
Thanks to the energy, talent and enthusiasm of our remarkable writers, directors and producers collaborating with our team at Greenlit Productions in Vihti, Finland, we are about to share untold about remarkable women around the world.
— Jane Applegate
Leslie Grossman is a Senior Fellow and Faculty Director of Executive Women’s Leadership at The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, and founder of the Her Circle Leadership training program. A leading global expert in women’s leadership, she is an executive coach, author, sought-after speaker, and former serial entrepreneur. Leslie founded the Women’s Leadership Exchange, a national conference program impacting the careers and businesses of women from 2002 – 20012. In addition to the work she does at GWU leading the Executive Women’s Leadership Program, and the Women Leaders on the Rise program, Leslie recently founded Circle Leadership Coaching, which trains coaches, consultants and trainers in a specialized program to develop women executives to their full potential as leaders and address workplace challenges and self-limiting beliefs.
Linda Denny became President Emeritus of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council upon her retirement in 2011.
WBENC provides a national “gold standard” third party certification that a woman’s business is at least 51 percent woman owned, operated, managed, and controlled.
During her presidency, Linda assisted the National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Disability:IN, and the National Veteran Owned Business Association (NaVOBA) in creating their third-party business certification programs.
Prior to joining WBENC, she spent 23 years in insurance and financial services industry, advancing from agent to corporate vice president of New York Life Insurance Company and other firms. She has served on many boards including: Washington DC’s National Women’s History Museum and the Women’s Leadership Board of the Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Clare Hutton is Reader in English and Digital Humanities at reader in English and digital humanities, at Loughborough University, England. She was curator of Women and the Making of Ulysses exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. She has written a number of academic publications in Irish literature and Modernism, including Serial Encounters: Ulysses and the Little Review (Oxford University Press, 2019). She did her degrees in London (BA), Dublin (MPhil) and Oxford (DPhil).
Alice Look is a veteran television production executive.
At A&E, she managed an in-house production team that created a variety of programming, including episodic series, documentaries and short form content for History, Lifetime and fyi. She oversaw the process from concept pitch, rights, script, edit, music and delivery for domestic and global distribution.
Alice will write and produce episodes for the series. She also has independent writing projects in development.
Judy Guillermo Newton - worked for over 40 years as an organizational development consultant for private, non-profit and public organizations before joining Montecito Bank & Trust as Senior Vice President and Director of Organizational Development and Human Resources.
Before joining the bank,
Judy worked with leaders in the academic, administrative, and student service divisions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She served as the Campus Ombudsman, working with UCSB community members, including faculty, staff, and students, who sought guidance with the resolution of problems, complaints, conflicts and other issues.
She was a licensed marriage & family therapist for over 30 years. Judy is currently working as an Executive/Organizational Coach and consultant helping organizations develop their strategic plans and meet their goals.
Jill Doyle started her career as an actress before establishing Ireland’s premier performing arts school and a talent agency. Jill has produced and directed many stage shows in addition to acting in, producing and casting film, TV & commercials.
Jill is the founder and a director at The National Performing Arts school which established 30 years ago in Dublin.
National Performing Arts School opened its doors at The Factory on Barrow Street in Dublin’s Docklands in September, 1994.
The NPAS Agency represents young actors in film, theatre, television and all the performing arts. NPAS tudents have worked on many productions over the last 30 years, most recently on films including: The Wonder ( Element Pictures 2022), Nocebo and My Sailor, My Love (2022).
Doyle has appeared in films including: The Country Girls by Edna O Brien, Da by Hugh Leonard and The Van by Roddy Doyle. Her theatrical roles include roles in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers and Sean O Casey’s Shadow of a Gunman, Sarcophagus, All The Way Back at the Abbey Theatre and many more TV roles.
Suzanne Dudley Schon is a life and leadership coach, writer, and actress.
As a coach, she brings insights to clients, engages them to develop their resilience, re-write their “stories”, and navigate complex dynamics. In these ways clients can more effectively experience peace and well-being as they create their lives and grow their businesses.
Suzanne’s writing credits include her book Out of the Box; A Journey In and Out of Emotional Captivity, which details her own journey to freedom, and her poetry appears in a variety of literary magazines and the recent anthology, Dreams and Blessings.
She has appeared in a few independent films, including Nora Jacobson’s The Hanji Box, on network television, and many stage productions in Los Angeles and regional theater both in the Midwest and New England.